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HN automatically title-cases everything. After sumbission, OP can edit the title and changes will stick. This also happens with leading numbers.
Yep, there's a reason that I am no longer an adjunct professor. There were parts I liked about it, but it was a lot of work and even more of a time sink, for not much pay. It was immensely satisfying to teach students who wanted to be there and wanted to learn, it was less satisfying when students wouldn't show up to any classes start begging for more time to take the exam, or when students would cheat on tests.

I do recommend doing the adjunct thing for one semester if you're able to, it actually is something that I think has really helped me in a lot of ways (increased empathy for people struggling with math/CS concepts, slowing down my talking speed when speaking publicly, etc.). You might like it, you might hate it, you might not be sure what you feel about it (that's my case), but the worst case scenario is you don't do it next semester.
That’s good for companies though. When dealing with large volumes of customers asymmetric is good. Telephone lines get quickly overloaded.
I'd make the exact opposite suggestion: Always use WebPack. There will be a package in the future that has a particular WebPack configuration to make; and you don't want to figure out how to do that in another bundler.
Why is the US military procuring Cisco equipment from any retailer other than Cisco itself? Even if the devices weren’t counterfeit, the seller could install implants in them.
> The only time I got paid per interaction with a customer it was called commission.

Sounds like you were being taken advantage of. That's without knowing the details of the situation though. :(
Seeing the same on Android
They bought from Amazon, etc. I think there are two issues here, 1 buying components for stuff like that from those types of sources, in addition to 2 his fraud
It is common elsewhere in CA, wherever courts are slow to evict.

Tenants can incur 100s of thousands of dollars of costs before you get them out through the legal system.

The worst tenants are judgements proof and can bankrupt you with impunity. Easy to lose your retirement funds.
Isn’t that illegal to a certain extent (domain squatting)?
Musk has personally bragged about banning a lot of left-leaning accounts and unbanning right-leaning. What is your evidence that the site still leans left?
There’s a movie clip I’ve seen with Brad Pitt of all people, explaining how America isn’t a nation, it’s a business. A business you don’t own and can’t escape. And you’re on your own. Something to that effect anyway. I’d love to know the movie or show! Its such a perfect example of a truth we all know but that never gets spoken aloud.

The Founding Fathers would be deeply ashamed of us, I think.
What does "doesnt make it so" even mean here. If I experience pain, then I dont "actually" feel pain? I don't understand what youre saying.
RE "...And since supply is low and prices are high....." What exactly is constraining supply of new dwellings.? What is being done to create supply? How did this low supply come about. Most likely a series of several events has existed to several degrees for several years to create the supply issue. In my area vacancy rate can be used to measure supply. A vacancy rate of 3% is regarded as fair supply balance between property owners and people wanting to rent. Currently in my area supply is 0.8% - this means there is many more people seeking to rent a house that houses actually available for rent. In my area , the housing crisis is attributed ( in my opinion ) to certain government policies ( federal , state, local government ) policies.
My initial thought has been something like that, but I keep going back to the question of whether there's a workaround/mitigation for the crappy behavior we're seeing from people with LLMs.
I dislike that syntax, but it might be better to instead use a special syntax that can't be the name of any variable, like the asterisk in Raku as mentioned below. In such a case, perhaps the function that would call it should check if the value is already the correct type and use that instead of calling it as a function, since then it would be possible for the filter condition to be a constant true or false that does not depend on the values being filtered (this is not usually useful, but it is more consistent and sometimes it is useful).

I think that the automatic semicolon insertion is a bad feature of JavaScript.
I'm led to believe that punching them with bare hands, while slow, gets the job done.
> FTP? Seriously?

exactly - if I have to build a docker image anyway the deployment advantage of php is completely wiped out.
It's been a while but I would benchmark how ClamAV fares. At $(day job) we implemented scanning for file uploads and after our security team tested they noticed that it detected things fairly poorly (60% was on the high side) for very well known malicious content iirc.

We ultimately scrapped it, if anyone else has any better experience I'd love to hear it.
Took me down a rabbit hole to the Nimitz and nuclear. If anyone wants to join, this thesis out of MIT was comprehensive:

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/103656/953286...
Making them buy immunity.
Primate 0.31: new hot reload, projections and sorting in stores, new router
Calling fusion research underfunded is rich(no pun intended). Costs for ITER are estimated to 45 to 65 billion USD it's one of the most ambitious and costly science projects in the world to date. That's not even accounting for all the other fusion projects.

There are many areas in science that receive significantly less funding.

I would also argue that the prevelant perception that fusion would lead to to essentially unlimited free energy is wrong. The extremely high capital costs would likely mean that fusion is unlikely to ever match solar or wind in energy production costs.

I'm not opposed to fusion/plasma research, we have much insights into nonlinear dynamics and chaotic behaviour due to this research, I disagree with the notion that this is a field that achieves incredible outcomes with small budgets, that's far from reality.
At least on x86, there's no real point in detecting truncation before upcasting, since expanding multiplication yields both the high and low halves in a single instruction. At best, you'd be adding branches that the processor can insert just as well itself. (Unless we're talking about things like 128x128-bit multiplication, which would be a different story; it would likely depend on your expected input distribution.)

As for returning an overflow bit, Rust has had this since forever with its overflowing_OP() methods, and C23 has recently added an <stdckdint.h> header with a bunch of ckd_OP() macros that return an overflow bit.
Both Azure and AWS have this feature and it’s very useful to avoid having to proxy large files through your own backend.
The circling behavior is, as I read, almost always them waiting for a warm current to take them elsewhere.
I think the biggest thing with this is reliability. I've got a half a dozen cellular radios lying around my house (cellphones) of which exactly one is functional. Even if I paid for a new sim for the others... I'm not sure some of them could work at all with current transmitters, even if the hardware was functional.

I've got an AM/FM radio that's 20-30 years old and it still works. At some point it would be nice if we could get back to vendor-agnostic wireless protocols that aren't obsolete every 10 years. Until we have such a thing deprecating AM seems premature.
Scalable Spear Phishing with LLMs
Only if you build it. Stop building it, and get those you know to stop contributing to that nonsense, and suddenly it doesn't happen.

That's collective action though. No one wants to do that.
Not all unions are perfect and there are certainly issues. That being said, the American solution of getting rid of them entirely is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Individual employees just do not have the negotiating heft of a corporation, particularly in the US with employer provided healthcare and whatnot.
The future of Google search is clouded by generative AI
I used to think Google was a giant that couldn't be toppled. With more and more articles coming out like this, I'm less certain. Now is a pivotal moment in Google's history. If they can truly weed out spam, reward good content, and match or exceed ChatGPT and Perplexity in the AI department (in the very near future), their iron grip on the search engine market will remain. I'm uncertain they can do any of those things. Thoughts?
A micro kernel you say? Interesting.. I remember in the past it was claimed that those would never be able to be as performant as macro kernels. But I also remember things like being able to install drivers without requiring a reboot and without needing to worry about it crashing your system either.

What do you you think is possible in a perfect operating system?
This is parts of what I enjoy by working as an academic. I can get into a comfortable position with a book, take a walk or go to the gym during my workday without any judgement. I find that it is very helpful to be able to do something physical while thinking about a hard problem, and conversely being able to leave my desk and do something else for a short while if I am struggling to get into my work. I am a lot more productive than when I was a consultant and was busy trying to look busy.
I saw we first take the small step and prevent people from having $120 million to spend on a wedding. Perhaps that step will suffice. Maybe not. One can analyze the situation as needed to see or adjustments in either direction need to be made.
Lesson to learn: don’t build custom languages
> Prices would absolutely go down, but anyone unable to buy would have no option.

Without numbers, which you don't have because no one does, that's total nonsense. Price determines options, not buy/rent. If the price of buying were lower than current rent, more people would have options, not fewer.

There are a lot of ways to make that happen. Government could build housing which would both provide jobs and housing, and act as a means of controlling prices (if prices get too high, the government undercuts them). This was done in the 50s and while the results in cities were bad (i.e. "projects", which were largely a result of racism), suburban and rural houses built in that time are pretty good--I grew up in one--and we can learn from the mistakes of that time. Government lending which is currently extended to banks could be extended directly to homebuyers--there's no reason for the middle man here.

Home ownership is part of the American dream and without it, the American dream is dying.
You lost me. Are you seriously staking a position on "Solar Energy Will Never Work Because Electric Companies Don't Do Windows"? Or are you just trolling. This is silly. Yes. You can clean a solar panel. Do you genuinely not believe that?
An alternative proposal for CSS masonry – Blog – Chrome for Developers
Well, yeah, the best precedent we have is the Sony and Bleem case. But the funny thing about common law systems is the precedents are really important until someone tries again and the precedent is suddenly thrown out.
> Explanation: The image is of a residential street in London. The architecture of the buildings is典型的英国风格, and the vegetation is consistent with that of London. The street is also relatively narrow, which is common in London.

Not sure about the mix of languages here. It’s correct, but not specific.
Warren Buffett says AI scamming will be the next big 'growth industry'
Stereoretentive Enantioconvergent Reactions
Shannon:Kolmogorov::LLMs:minds
The next GPU shortage
that is probably true in the absence of humans, but modern humans ruin all these cycles when they become part of them, often kill apex predators just because they're bored or their activities inadvertently kill them (poisoning everything in site because you don't like mice/rats)
There's a difference between if I try and sell you a digital copy of Super Metroid and if Nintendo does, right? Nintendo's argument would be that the emulator itself is no different.
Public procurement processes put in to enable competition and prevent corruption (ostensibly) enable situations where you make public bids for network infrastructure and get whatever the lowest price bidder grabbed.
It’s trying to describe excessive consumption, which is always going to be subjective - except perhaps if we use the description ‘drives up prices beyond historic norms’. Which is why they put it in quotes.

And excessive production is also always going to be subjective - except perhaps
if we use the description ‘causes a glut of product which drives the price of a product below the reasonable/historic cost to produce that product’.

So excessive production is that which bankrupts producers. And excessive consumption is that which drives up prices unsustainably. Yeah?
Why?

Probably the other seller offered a lower price.
I hope you're not thinking of the decline of folders - folders aren't fundamental computer science.
They weren't alone, BlackBerry, Symbian, J2ME app stores were similar.

The question is, who is going to play Apple's move, now almost 20 years later.
FARA deals with organizations diectly lobbying the government. The bill in Georgia says any organization that gets more than 20% of it's money internationally must register as a foreign agent.

How are these two concepts remotely similar? Why should a travel agency or a freight shipping company register as a "foreign agent" (a positively Orwellian term)?
Im saying in my part of the world. The costs of providing the building and actually renting to a tenant can consume a large part ( easily 50% plus for me ) of the gross yearly rent- ( and that does not include any cost of borrowed funds. or the expected return in invested funds ) My observation is lots costs are missed and not accounted for.
>Carbs are necessary macronutrient for everybody.

This is a wild claim to make and doesn't seem to hold true scientifically. Humans require fat, protein, and various vitamins usually received from vegetables. There is no requirement that comes from carbohydrates as they effectively are just empty calories.
> he thinks this sucks for everybody

Works out pretty well for the hot mansluts! Won't somebody please think of the... sorry, nevermind. Yeah, tinder is shit, and it doesn't seem like most dating apps are much better.
I consider the approach of using virus scanning inherently flawed: They rely on heuristics and rules to essentially create a blacklist. And they add a ton of complexity (more code -> usually more bugs) which is not something you want if you work with untrustworthy data.

What you instead want is a whitelist: Only allow properly formatted images and videos and ruthlessly reject anything else. I wrote about how I implemented this for my service in another response.
I bought a 100€ used MTB almost ten years ago, still ride it weekly, and the only major work i did on it was swapping tires from tasseled to road ones. Still, I can smoke people riding ebikes since they are locked under 25km/h in italy.
Spending thousands on a bike is understandable if you are really into it but not necessary at all
If you throw the same question at it 15 different ways, it can eventually give you ideas for optimizations that you probably wouldn't have thought of otherwise. It knows parts of APIs that I've never used. ByteBuffer#getLong, ByteBuffer#duplicate, StringBuilder#deleteCharAt, RandomGenerator#nextLong(long)
> Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes

These two are not the same. It is dishonest to combine the two.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/07/29/prediabetes-the-ep...

I'm not quite ready to publish my hypothesis that prediabetes is a scam. I need to research it a little more. But a statistician friend of mine responded:

A handful of years ago, I looked into the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, NHANES. To first order, the 1AC level defining pre-diabetes, 6.5, is rather close to the median level. So that's scam-adjacent. Every once in a while, my doctor thanks me for giving him this NHANES table.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g3Icgu0ixLtYCjscYoiC...

As soon as you say this, someone will respond "My father has diabetes and he had his foot amputated!" This is not minimizing diabetes; it's questioning whether prediabetes is a thing.

How is it different from saying "Men over 60 have pre-prostate cancer?" Or, "we all have pre-death?"

You should have a regular blood test and your doctor should be monitoring a lot of things, including blood sugar. If the level is close to diabetes, he or she should warn you. But that's different from saying, "you have a disease."
>The Founding Fathers would be deeply ashamed of us, I think.

Sorry, but the founding fathers who held other humans in bondage for all sorts of free labor?

Those founding fathers, or did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning? Let me check wikipedia…
I was always asking what happened with the magnetic mirror experiments about fusion. I only know about, what was in a book that I read when I was young. I think that was the "The fusion quest"
So put the money in the stock market like everyone else with a 401K and stop constantly whining about getting someone else to pay off your mortgage. It’s not like what the world needs more of is real estate speculation.
Well, guess why most developers in the Apple ecosystem aren't really bothering with the Vision Pro.
They make too much easy ad money off the spam content farms to want to improve search. They'll ride it out until it implodes.
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If you use Nerd Fonts then you can select this on the recording settings page, or globally in your user settings.
Possibly. Everyone so far since the advent of nukes has generally abided by not shooting each other’s surveillance down in international territory (water, space, etc.) But perhaps that would change if UUVs are following subs.

Also I suppose the sub could re-enter its own coastal waters and then do it too, much as we shot down China’s spy balloon.
That's something they seem to do, for sure. It's just not the only thing.

They're not very vocal and are very social, so circling over carcasses might be a way to signal to others that they've found something.

They also form kettles as a big communal thing, too, for neither of those purposes. I've seen as many as 50 or 60 circling together for well over an hour, with no food nearby and no clearly no interest in going anywhere else.

(This is all turkey vultures in the US. These African vultures might have different behaviors, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are mostly comparable in terms of variety and sophistication)
We were that big company (50,000 employees, probably about 10,000 or so in technical roles across the enterprise) that had a bunch of custom portals and internal sites for all our dev stuff, and also Stoplight (Spotlight?) for APIs etc..

We were early adopters of Backstage, back in 2020. We've migrated almost all of our portals and "meta-infrastructure" to Backstage, and it's certainly not perfect, and not everyone has moved over, but the majority of our teams are in one service catalogue and people can much more easily find service owners, dependencies and more.

It's been a great tool and a pretty big internal success story for us.

But this move from Spotify tells me that they are no longer stewards of an open source project, they now use open source as a loss-leader for their paid offerings.

Which is totally fine, but it will change how we look at that relationship.
I am curious on any example where changing type in scope is more performant or more readable.

it is not really an argument against typescript that Javascript is so bad that you need to spent time tracking your changes.
I see that's not even traditional poison, but instead something meant to help the cattle. Unfortunate.
Pure fusion bombs are very destabilizing, yes. The current nuclear arms control regime depends on uranium enrichment/plutonium production being heavy industry, requiring large facilities with unusual equipment.

A research program for EPFCG pure fusion weapons could be quite small, only requiring a few hundred people and little equipment that couldn't be manufactured indigenously. Test explosions could be done at the kilogram scale, producing no radiation detectable from orbit or seismic effects, then easily scaled to kiloton yields.
RE "....That type of thing, major expenses, is some of the risk that landlords take on in exchange for collecting rent....." What is the $$$ cost of this risk? that is the question that property owner and tenant have completely different perspectives on.
Is this really the state of the industry? Where an SRE is asking how to handle user media on the web?

I'm not diminishing asking the question in principle, I'm questioning the role and forum that the question is being asked on.
I only use Yandex.com for organic search results for the last 6-9 months. Every few hundred queries I use Google. 90% of the time I am cross referencing several LLMs to get a general understanding of a topic or problem I want to learn more about before searching for dedicated discussions using Yandex. Google search results are a huge waste of time for me. If Yandex fails me I switch between Bing and Yahoo search.
We used to think the same of other industry giants.

Even Apple had quite a portion of luck, getting the right decisions with NeXT acquisition, with the remaining money they had left.
It would probably be more accurate to say that diet and exercise alone are not enough for most people with Type 2 diabetes in the US. They are still an important part of intervention. But as a practical matter, telling people who've developed Type 2 to just suddenly gain the willpower to do both of those things really isn't going to be enough to stop progress of the disease.
The research already exists. In either case I don't believe any methodology could possibly reveal the "perfect mix for optimal health." The headline belies the problem I have with this type of nonsense being posted on HN.
Some application security thoughts for serving untrusted content. Not all are required but the main thing is that you don't want the user to be able to serve html or similar (pdf, SVG?) file formats that can use your origin and therefore gain access to anything your origin can do:

- serve on a different top level domain, ideally with random subdomains per uploaded file or user who provides the content. This is really most important for serving document types and probably not for images though SVG I think is the exception as it can have scripting and styling within when loaded outside of an IMG tag

- set "content-security-policy: sandbox" (don't allow scripts and definitely don't allow same origin)

- set "X-Content-Type-Options: no sniff" - disabling sniffing makes it a lot harder to submit an image that's actually interpreted as html or js later.

Transforming the uploaded file also would defeat most exploit paths that depend on sniffing the content type.
> On the other hand, as I don't keep a radio in my house

AM radios are about $10 new, and probably considerably less at your local equivalent of Goodwill. Having one seems like a very cheap and very simple disaster preparedness measure.